Summary

Three Wishes is set in modern day Australia. It alternates between the perspectives of the Kettle triplets - Cat, Lyn, and Gemma – and various strangers who have observed the behavior of their family at different times in their lives.

In the Prologue, a third person narrator reflects that people sometimes become part of a performance by making a spectacle of themselves in public. One such example was an incident in a seafood restaurant in Sydney, Australia, the details of which have not yet been revealed.

“The Birthday Brawl”, tells the story of an intense argument in a seafood restaurant, from the perspective of lots of different people who witnessed the event, but not from the perspectives of the three protagonists in the incident itself. Three women were having a meal together. Towards the end of their meal, the waiting staff brought out three birthday...